Or, more likely, if people no longer need to work they no longer provide utility and are dead weight that needs to go.

I don’t think work will go away, it will just change, maybe too quickly for people to keep up.

Post AGI nobody knows. It’s debatable that humans will still have a place in an AGI world. But that’s also much further away than people seem to think. I don’t expect to see it in my lifetime (next 40-60 years).

> we will have UBI

or those who become unneeded would simply starve to death, or have to compete to get the last vestiges of available jobs.

I know which is more likely, from looking back at history.

Do you need to work now? When is the crossover where you won't need to work?

I live in a country where the government is actually calling for an INCREASE in work. When in history have we ever decreased the workload with the reason "well we don't need to produce any more"?

Yeah every breathless fucking advertisement and news article talking about the latest tech advance for the last 50 years has been promising to make like easier and with less work.

Yet all this tech stuff does is create even more. Working hours are up and productivity is down, and purportedly nobody knows why.

I want my 4 hour workday, goddammit